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Joelk111 @ Joelk111 @lemmy.world
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'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap

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  • If I had kids, I wouldn't live there. If I lived there I wouldn't have kids until I was able to move.

    It obviously isn't as simple as that, and it's a personal choice, but that's how I see it. Kids isn't just an emotional choice, you've gotta be able to raise them within your means.

    Where I live, we could own a house and have a couple kids, but it makes more sense to rent right now. Where we currently live, we could have a couple kids, and they'd each have their own room, but it'd be a bit tight.

    • 'An economic divide that is widening': Almost one third of Americans earning $150,000 a year or more say they're living paycheck to paycheck and many rely on credit cards to close the gap

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  • I'm a software developer, a couple years outta college. My girlfriend and I are living together, and make about $120k/yr combined. We have no problem, I save a lot of my income and still have a bunch left over for hobbies. She has maybe a couple grand in student debt left and I've never been in debt in my life. I'd be willing to bet that a large portion of the issue is car payments and payments on a house that's fancier than they need.

    It's also wild that roughly the same percentage (36%) of people making $50k-$150k are also living paycheck to paycheck. Live within you means. It isn't hard.

    • Mexico's minimum wage will rise by 20% next year, to about $14.25 per day

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    • The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money

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  • Unironically enough, while DeLoreans are cool, they're also kinda crappy vehicles.

    • The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money

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  • I'd agree that I see way too much Elon stuff on my lemmy feed. This one I'm more interested in than 99% of the others. Maybe it's just cause I'm a gear head, but I'll sure as heck take it over the 10 X (formerly known as Twitter) "news" articles that I scrolled past to get here. News in quotes because it is no longer news that X (more commonly known as Twitter) and its owner are dumb.

    • Don't eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the source is unknown, CDC says, as deadly salmonella outbreak grows

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  • What honeydews have y'all been eating? Honeydew is delicious if you get a good one. Yeah, bland ones are out there, but shitty fruit exists for all fruits.

    • YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation

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  • Are you sure it's YouTube doing that and not just bot accounts? It seems like you're jumping to the conspiracy conclusion.

    • You can’t even pay people to have more kids

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  • Interesting. Definitely wouldn't have thought of that.

    • Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time — here’s how it may impact mass EV adoption

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  • Plugin hybrids are killer. EV around town and good MPG on road trips.

    • You can’t even pay people to have more kids

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  • Yeah, I'm definitely no expert on the subject, but we've got too many people, how is less kids a huge issue?

    • YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation

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  • This is what I keep saying, as a gear head. So many people who like cars hate public transport, but they don't understand that getting people who don't like to drive off the roads would only make driving better. Also, the only roads that might (and should) close would be in city centers, places it sucks to drive anyways.

    • Three-year cruise canceled weeks before shoving off, after one woman sold her apartment to join unique voyage

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  • I didn't say that. I said I'd rather be productive than go on a cruise.

    • Three-year cruise canceled weeks before shoving off, after one woman sold her apartment to join unique voyage

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  • I don't think I'd go if it were free. I have other things - productive things I could be doing.

    • Three-year cruise canceled weeks before shoving off, after one woman sold her apartment to join unique voyage

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  • I don't think I'd go if it were free. I have other things - productive things I could be doing.

    • First multiplayer impromptu SteamDeck session.

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  • Yeah, I haven't used it, but I found a third party plugin thing. That's about all I know about it.

    • First multiplayer impromptu SteamDeck session.

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  • There's a Seperate plugin thing I found specifically for SteamDeck. That's all I know about it.

    • First multiplayer impromptu SteamDeck session.

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  • I needed something with a lot of surface area so my drink didn't spill on my bed, and hey, it works.

    • First multiplayer impromptu SteamDeck session.

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  • Yeah, that's what I did. Seems to be working.

    • Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions?

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  • Get wrecked (/s)

    ⭐ Quizzle 18 2/20

    ⬛🟩

    https://quizzle.game

    My second question was "Is it larger than a microwave" and it gave it to me. Sorta BS tbh. Idk if I'd have ever gotten it if it'd answered that question as "no" like it should've.

    Edit: They updated it to make it more lenient. Imo too lenient.

    • Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions?

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  • I asked if it was larger than a microwave on my second question and it gave it to me...

    Edit: There was an update to make it more lenient. Too lenient imo.